Materials Quotes
Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."
To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.
If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.
Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.
Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.
One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?
The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we now have. We know so much more than what we are doing.
The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.
A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.
In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.
Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.
I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.
I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.
